On Thursday, May 1st, the Home Builders Association of Maryland, our hometown association, held its annual MAX Awards. As usual, we were excited to attend the party. The MAX Awards are like the Oscars for our local industry. It’s the night we get to come together as an industry and celebrate our successes as well […]
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Have you browsed the latest issue of Sales and Marketing Ideas Magazine? If so (or even if you haven’t) turn to page 34 where you’ll find ONeil Interactive’s very own Dennis O’Neil featured in this month’s Tech Zone. We’ve often discussed our preference toward Responsive Web Design and its position in the sphere of builder […]
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Google recently published a report called The Customer Journey to Online Purchase that includes some excellent insights on how consumers use the Internet and interact with the marketing they encounter. Google has charted those marketing tools based on their use by consumers in relationship to the purchase decision; The lower the number, the more likely this […]
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If you’ve ever been asked to provide your community’s latitude and longitude coordinates, then you may have asked yourself “My what?!” In short, this is a your location expressed in decimal degrees as used by the most common Geographic Information Systems. Still confused? These magic numbers get the little Google map pin to show up […]
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We pride ourselves on making Builder WebPress, our turnkey website platform for home builders, better and better with each opportunity. We are pleased to share that it has been a very busy few months, and it’s been some time since our last update. This means we’ve got lots of goodies to share. Instead of vacations, […]
Read More »In a recent Builder Web Apps blog post, we released our semi-annual Builder Web Stats report and revealed a few notable data points relevant to the world of home builder sales and marketing. Scott Stroud from BuilderRadio thought these metrics were worth sharing with his listener audience, so he invited Dennis O’Neil, of ONeil Interactive and […]
Read More »If you haven’t yet seen the latest issue of Sales & Marketing Ideas Magazine, I invite you to check it out here. It was a special honor to contribute again to this issue of the magazine. As part of a panel of Internet marketing leaders in our industry, I participated in a Q&A session lead […]
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We’re all for sharing best practices and new techniques when it comes to web design and development, so BohConf 2013, an “unconf” inspired conference held at the University of Baltimore, seemed like the perfect way to spend our day. This collaboration of web professionals and enthusiasts alike, opens gainful dialogue on everything from Angular JavaScript […]
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This past June marked the 30th month since we began tracking analytics for the Builder Web Stats report. The data comes completely from United States based home builders, but the reports have been reviewed by thousands of builders in nearly 30 countries, providing a much needed benchmark of performance and an indicator of consumer behavior. […]
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Few things give us more satisfaction than to roll out bunches of new updates to our platforms. Making the web better for builders is a passion for us. It’s our pleasure to share some of the amazing updates we just pushed live for all of our Builder WebPress subscribers, and a few we rolled out in the […]
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Live chat can be a valuable tool to convert more website browsers into conversations. However, just like any conversation tool, it’s only as good as the conversationalist. Clients who have good salespeople at the other end of the chat request, by far, see the best results from the tool. I get asked a lot about […]
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The spring market is underway and there’s a lot of positive press about increasing home starts. We love this builder-friendly news, but with all the activity who has time to update Facebook every time your communities have something new to share?? Builder Web Apps says let our Facebook app do the heavy lifting for you! […]
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So I’m taking this opportunity to share the success of a recent ONeil Interactive project. It’s a projects I’m especially proud of our team for creating, and the team over a Litmus, a great tool for email testing, seems to agree. ONeil Interactive was selected by FutureCare Health & Management Corporation to build an email system […]
Read More »Every 6 months, we release our Builder Web Stats report reporting on average home builder website traffic statistics. This most recent report was included as part of the annual Sales & Marketing Pulse report. The Builder Web Stats infographic is a built from the Google Analytics data of many dozens of builders, and our data […]
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A few week ago Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang) tweeted a photo from inside the Hyatt Hotel in Santa Clara, CA. The photo, as you can see below shows how the hotel manager rolls around the hotel while remaining stationary. As you can see, this rolling stand with an iPad mounted on top allows the hotel manager […]
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